Reviewer: Dos-Games-Online
This game is based on Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series, your job is to destroy a Borg Cube spaceship as you play the role of Captain Picard on board the USS Enterprise-D. You have phasers and photon torpedoes at your disposal.
That Borg ship is incredibly tough, this is an incredible challenge. Also the graphics are old-fashioned CGA.
Download this for some Star Trek action!
Reviewer: AndrewMontoya
Borg War is a game that I first started playing when I was a kid about twelve years old or so; this is one of many Startrek games that was pumped out in the early 90's that did really get a lot of followers, but I still found it very amusing.
It's basically a button masher... you get photon torpedos and phazers and whale on this big cumbersome borg vessle for about ten minutes at time. It gets a bit monotomous to play, but as a kid when I played this game it was a life or death situation. Startrek the Next Generation, you see, was a big hit and I was a fan. As I play this game now I see it for what it really is...nostoagic and simple.
This is the kind of game that should be given away with promotions for ceral boxes; it is by no means a classic and when I play it now I see that the designers never put that much effort into its creation, but if you'd like to take a quick stroll down memory lane than this is the game for you.
The purpose of old games like these today is in my mind as a way of promotion; this game in its hay day wasn't all that great so the fact that I liked it is just a comment on how big a fan of all things Star Trek I was. Now that I am older and can see this game for was it really is-- a button masher dressed up and sold under the wings of the Star Trek franchise-- I can clearly see that it isn't the greatest game. This is the kind of game that competes with Bejeweled 1 and that's not saying much.
Basically this is how it's played: a large borg cube centers itself in the middle of the sceen and you whale on it until it's blown to smitherenes; the cube fires back at you but you have greater aglility. After you blow it up you level up and so on and so on. There is really nothing to it and it doesn't really simulate how the borg were protrayed on the TV show; the borg were near invincable and they would take out entire star fleets of ships. The Enterpise alone, of course as portrayed in the show, could never successfully attack an entire borg ship and survive let alone get stronger as this game plays. In later Star Trek games, the simulated battles take on more of a strategic look and feel while this game merely concentrates on the brutal weapons side of Star Trek.
In conclusion, this game is for Star Trek fans and collectors, for certain. People looking for a solid play but have no real interest in Star Trek may want to move on.
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